Papercutz

Started as Bruno Miguel’s music project they’re now a live touring band. Pursuing a balance between acoustic and electronic sounds on instrumental and vocal tracks, Bruno’s young project has resulted from love of live instrumentation, organic electronics, dream like melodies, pop vocals and cinematic piano ambiences.

After appearances on various international compilations :papercutz signed their debut album Lylac to Montreal’s Apegenine Recordings who has released music by artists like David Kristian, Emanuele Errante, Khonnor, Klaus Lunde (Xerxes), Julien Neto, among others and the album shows :papercutz stretching their song pop format further.

Their special edition single Ultravioleta rmx’s features their album single “Ultravioleta” and remixes from artists like The Sight Below (Ghostly International), Neotropic (Ninja Tune, Mush), Spandex (Sleep Debt, Hand on the Plow) and Signer (Carpark Records).

The group, who are now on tour promoting their debut album, won April 2008 an award on The People’s Music Awards whose ceremony was held on London, gaining praises from the likes of BBC presenter Anne Nightingale, producer/composer Ian Sanderson or known XFM Producer, Eddy Temple-Morris and have been recently showcased by Myspace/Vodafone “Ones to Watch” in 2009, being the first Portuguese band ever to achieve such acknowledgement.

Now on UK Audiobulb Records, their new release “Do outro lado do espelho (Lylac ambient reworks)” whose main title in their Portuguese native language, means on the other side of the looking glass, is made up of diverse ambient interpretations of the their debut album’s songs from known and respected ambient and experimental artists and a new :papercutz song specially composed for this album. Out on the 24th of May.